By 1938 James Motorcycles were producing only 5 models, all powered by the popular Villiers 2 stroke engine and using Albion gearboxes. This small 8 page catalogue was printed for the main New Zealand importer Skeates & White of Auckland, but in the back of it Skeates have listed 56 James Representatives throughout NZ that […]
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A comprehensive and well illustrated parts book for Scott motorcycles from 1922 to 1926. Complete with part numbers but unfortunately no descriptions or prices. But as clever vintage motorcyclists we can identify what we want without a bunch of words doing it for us. And as they say ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’.
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With the current situation of overseas hostilities effecting the price of fuel in New Zealand even small cars are becoming very expensive to fill up their tanks, prices of more than $100 are appearing to be the norm. So it makes one wonder if there will be an increase in small 2 wheeled scooters appearing
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This is the third piston catalogue that we have put up on Barnstormers, the other two being a 1938 BRICOVMO and a 1963 Hepolite. We still have a 1948 Hepolite catalogue to scan and format sometime in the future. This catalogue is quite unique in that Fisher were a New Zealand manufacturer from Wellington. We
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Harley Davidson advertised their motorcycles as the Worlds Most Popular Motorcycle and trying to keep ahead of other manufacturers meant that 1948 was going to be quite an important year for some of their models. It was the last year of the springer front suspension that had reigned supreme on the Big Twin for over
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